A Fantastic Woman

Sebastián Lelio’s extraordinary wonderful new movie gets to the very core of Chilean society’s inbred homophobia and transphobia that threatens the very existence of Marina  (Daniela Vega) the protagonist simply because they resent the very fact that she had been the light of her dead lover’s life.  The movie opens with 57-year-old Orlando (Francisco Reyes) getting ready … Continue reading

A Few Days of Respite aka Quelques Jours De Repit

This movie opens with two Iranian gay men who are fleeing their country (to avoid being executed as is the norm for homosexuals in Iran) and they have been dropped off at a railway line in the French countryside from where they can walk to the Station and catch a train, which will eventually get … Continue reading

A few of the great queer writers/books at MIAMI BOOK FAIR 2021

The Miami Book Fair International, an eight-day literary party in November is back bigger and better, this year and now being a hybrid Event with lots of activities online, it will be reachable to more people than ever, It opens November 17 with six nights of readings and discussions with noted authors from the United … Continue reading

A Finished Life : The Goodbye & No Regrets Tour

Gregg Cour is a 48 year old  gay man with AIDS who, after being HIV+ for half of his life has decided that he simply does not want to start yet a new regime of different medications. As he explains, after a while the body comes immune to drugs taken continually and hence the need to … Continue reading

A first look at the highly anticipated RUDOLF NUREYEV Biopic

  Here’s the first trailer of the highly anticipated biopic on the late great Rudolf Nureyev called The White Crow.  Directed by Ralph Fiennes  from a script by David Hare, it stars emerging dancer Oleg Ivenko as Nureyev, and ballet’s bad boy Sergei Polunin who was recently sacked by the Paris Opera for his homophobic remarks. … Continue reading

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